Liz Walter Leads the Pack

Princeton dealt the Dartmouth women's basketball team their only defeat in the first half of the season. Revenge was sweet. Pitted against the Tigers for the second time, the Green downed the visitor from New Jersey 72-43. Leading the charge, as she has done all season, was Captain Liz Walter '89. She scored 23 points and had 15 rebounds.

Against Yale, the six-foot Walter scored 22 points, pulled down 16 rebounds and was credited with eight steals. She was 10 11 from the free throw line. In the Brown game, Walter shot 75 percent from the field, 88 percent from the foul line and racked up 25 points. She also grabbed ten rebounds.

This season the women's basketball team painted the Ivy League green once again as they captured their sixth Ivy League title in eight years. And the leading scorer and re- bounder in the league? Liz Walter.

"I try to lead by example," Walter said. "Being a very young team, we all have to stick together." She has a good point: this is the youngest team in the recent history of Dartmouth women's basketball. There isn't a single senior on the roster.

"I learn a,lot from just watching her when she's playing," said freshman Allison Greene. "She has such a great court sense. She's a great athlete and a great person. For only a sophomore, she's a great leader on and off the court. People look up to her."

Walter, a native of Sheridan, Wyoming, was a recruiter's dream. "She came east and only visited Ivy League Schools," said head coach Jacqueline Hullah. "Dartmouth itself did more to recruit her than we did as coaches." Walter, who plans to pursue a career teaching high school biology or in wildlife management explained, "I knew that there would be a tradeoff with academics and athletics in an Ivy League school, but I knew it would be worth it. I definitely made the right choice."

All the right moves: Liz Walter takes aimat another field goal.